About Me
“It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one’s thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.” – Isabel Colegate
My name is Tony DaSilva. Like you, I’m just a regular person trying to find my path through life. So, if you need to see some “stinkin’ badges” or other credentials in order to read any further….. then don’t read any further.
One of the goals of this blasphemous blog is to stir up some kind of emotion and evoke a chuckle from you, even if it is uncomfortable. I believe that some of the verbal diarrhea I spew in here has a grain of truth to it, but I also like to think that I’m not married to my thoughts.
If you’re still here, then here’s a mashup of the topics that interest me:
Life long learning, social networking, connectivity, interfaces, dynamic interactions, cybernetics, feedback loops, entropy and the 2nd law of thermodynamics, holarchy, tangled hierarchies, simplicity, complexity, ambiguity, conceptual integrity, systems thinking, abstraction, quantum physics, reading, religion-independent spirituality, meditation (which I’m incredibly inept at!), (so-called) leadership, creativity, innovation, project management, executive management, software product lines, UML, SysML, C++, software architecture, distributed real-time communication middleware, company cultures, corporate wikis, manifesting change, fishing, golfing, exercising, electronic gadgets, and of course, moderate partying!
Oh, and by the way, I’m an FAI and a self-proclaimed L’artiste. In addition, in the minds of some (many?) people, I’m an incorrigible serial misbehaver. What are you?
I was looking for a coherent explanation of UML/SysML without going into too much detail. I really liked this one as it included roughly what’s on the OMG website but it was a better overview. I also liked the blog about managers. Really funny but in a tragic way because it’s all so familiar!
Thanx for listening Michelle.
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DAVE
Hi, can I use some of the pics in a presentation pls? Thanks, Lili
Sure thing Lili. All I ask is that you put a link to bulldozer00.com somewhere in your presentation. Note: I haven’t been diligent on where I plucked icons/graphics from. Most of them are from the Microsoft Visio clipboard, but some of them are randomly copied from the web.